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Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer

By Jo Marchant

Published by Windmill Books

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?

By New Scientist

Published by Profile Books

The Drunkard’s Walk - How Randomness Rules Our Lives

By Leonard Mlodinow

Published by Penguin

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By Richard Dawkins

Published by Bantam Press

 

Twelve diseases that changed our world

By Irwin W. Sherman

Published by American Society for Microbiology

Irish Fossils

By Patrick Gaffikin

Published by Appletree Press

Molecules That Changed the World

by K. C. Nicolaou and Tamsyn Montagnon

Published by Wiley

The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality

By Ronald Mallet with Bruce Henderson

Published by Corgi

 

Bad Science

By Ben Goldacre

Published by Fourth Estate

How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments For The Armchair Scientist

By Mick O’Hare

Published by New Scientist/ Profile

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By Norman Doidge

Published by Penguin Books

 

The God Delusion

By Richard Dawkins

Published by Black Swan

The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

By Michael Blastland

Published by Profile Books

Why Do Buses Come in Threes? The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

By Jeremy Wyndham (Foreword), Rob Eastaway (Author), Tim Rice (Forword) (Author)

Published by Robson Books Ltd

Why Is Snot Green? The Science Museum Q & a Book

By Glenn Murphy

Published by Macmillan Children’s Books

 

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Written by Janna Levin

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

By Linda Lear

Published by St. Martin’s Press

 

Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction

By David Norman
Published by Oxford University Press

Fossils: a Very Short Introduction

By Keith Thomson
Published by Oxford University Pres

 

Science Experiments You Can Eat

By Vicki Cobb
Published by HarperTrophy

Science in seconds for kids

By Jean Potter
Published by Jossey Bass

Science Magic: In the Bathroom

By Richard Robinson
Published by Oxford University Press

Science Magic: In the Kitchen

By Richard Robinson
Published by Oxford University Press

 

Easter Island

By Jennifer Vanderbes

Published by Abacus

Faust in Copenhagen: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age

By Gino Segrè

Published by Jonathan Cape

It’s Part of What We Are

By Dr. R. Charles Mollan

Published by the Royal Dublin Society

 

Introduction to Biology

 

Published by An Gúm

Going Nuclear
Ireland, Britain and the Campaign to shut Sellafield

By Veronica McDermott

Publisher: Irish Academic Press

 

A Meaningful World: How the Arts And Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

By Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt

Published by InterVarsity Press

The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism

By Michael J. Behe

Published by Simon & Schuster Export

 

The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

By Stuart Clark

Published by Princeton University Press

Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug

By Diarmuid Jeffreys

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Blood of the Isles

By Bryan Sykes

Published by Bantam Press

Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning

By George Monbiot

Published by Allen Lane

 

The Selfish Gene

By Richard Dawkins

Published by Oxford University Press

 

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next (Hardcover)

By Lee Smolin

Published by Allen Lane

The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead

By Marcus Chown

Published by Faber and Faber

The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future

By James Martin

Published by Eden Books,Transworld

 

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

By Daniel Goleman

Published by Hutchinson

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

By Andrew Smith

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

By Jan Bondeson

Published by I B Tauris & Co Ltd

Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body

By Armand Marie Leroi

Published by HarperPerennial

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

By Mick O’Hare (Editor)

Published by Profile Books

 

Can You Feel the Force?

By Richard Hammond

Published by Dorling Kindersley

The Cloudspotter’s Guide

By Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Published by Sceptre

A Game with Sharpened Knives

Written by Neil Belton

Published by Phoenix Press

The Weather Handbook

By Alan Watts

Published by Adlard Coles Nautical

 

Why Does A Ball Bounce?: And 100 Other Questions From the Worlds of Science  

By Adam Hart-Davis

Published by Ebury Press

Warped Passages: Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

By Lisa Randall

Published by Allen Lane

First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong  

By James Hansen

Published by Simon & Schuster

Does anything eat wasps?: and 101 other questions

By New Scientist

Published by Profile Books

Body: An Amazing Tour of Human Anatomy 

By Robert Winston

Published by Dorling Kindersley

 

Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland

By David Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield

Published by Timber Press

 

 

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

By Philip Ball

Published by Arrow

Inside the Body: Fantastic Images from Beneath the Skin

By Susan Greenfield

Published by Cassell Illustrated

 

Science and Irish Culture: Why the history of science matters in Ireland

Edited by David Attis and Charles Mollan

Published by the RDS, 2004

Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection

Edited by Ken Houston

Published by UCD Press

 

The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves

By Enrico Coen

Published By Oxford Paperbacks

The Double Helix: Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

By James D. Watson

Published by Longman

Electric Universe

By David Bodanis

Published by Little Brown

 

Newton's Apple: Isaac Newton and the English Scientific Renaissance

By Peter Aughton

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated

 

 

The Cable: The Wire that Changed the World

By Gillian Cookson

Published by Tempus Publishing

Soul Made Flesh

By Carl Zimmer

Published by Heinemann

Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

By Michio Kaku

Published by Doubleday

DNA: The Secret of Life

By James D. Watson

Published by Arrow

The Golem: What You Should Know About Science (Canto Series)

By Harry M. Collins & Trevor Pinch

Published by Cambridge University Press

 

The Fabric of the Cosmos

By Brian Greene
Published by Allen Lane

Human: The Definitive Visual Guide

By Robert Winston (Editor)
Published by Dorling Kindersley

Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate

By Felicity Lawrence
Published by Penguin Books

The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins

By Maurice Wilkins
Published by Oxford University Press

The Mould in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The remarkable true story of the penicillin miracle

By Eric Lax
Published by Little, Brown

 

Big Bang

By Simon Singh

Published by Fourth Estate

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe  

By Roger Penrose

Published by Jonathan Cape

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

By Richard Dawkins

Published by Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated

 

Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

By Gerald Edelman
Published by Allen Lane (UK), Yale University Press (USA)

Uncertain Science - Uncertain World

By Henry N. Pollack
Published by Cambridge University Press

The Selfish Gene

By Richard Dawkins
Published by Oxford Paperbacks

Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

By Steven Strogatz
Published by Penguin Books

The Really Useful Science Book: Framework of Knowledge for Primary Teachers

By Steve Farrow
Published by RoutledgeFalmer

Some Time With Feynman

By Leonard Mlodinow
Published by Penguin Books

Science: A History

By John Gribbin
Published by Penguin Books

Longitude

By Dava Sobel
Published by Fourth Estate

Oxford Illustrated Science Encyclopedia

By Richard Dawkins & Robin Kerrod
Published byOxford University Press

Isaac Newton

By James Gleick
Published by Perennial

Fermat's Last Theorem

By Simon Singh
Published by Fourth Estate

Aquaculture: The Ecological Issues

By John Davenport, et al
Published by Blackwell Publishing

David Attenborough: Life on Air

By David Attenborough
Published by BBC Consumer Publishing (Books)

101 Red Hot Science Starters

By Natalie King & Sarah Hatton
Published by Letts Educational Ltd.

 

The Fly in the Cathedral
How a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom

By Brian Cathcart
Published by Viking Penguin

New Review, July 2004

 

2 books in 1 review

The Junior Dean, R.B. McDowell: Encounters with a Legend
Edited by Anne Leonard
Published by Lilliput Press

Historical Essays, 1938 – 2001
By R.B. McDowell
Published by Lilliput Press

The Mould in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The remarkable true story of the penicillin miracle

By Eric Lax
Published by Little, Brown

The Illustrated Brief History of Time

By Stephen Hawking
Published by Bantam Press

The Earth From The Air

By Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Lester Brown
Published by Thames & Hudson

The Earth: An Intimate History

By Richard Fortey
Published by HarperCollins

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton 1903 – 1995:
The Irish Scientist

By Vincent J. McBrierty
Published by Trinity College Dublin Press

Wetlands of Ireland Distribution, Ecology, Uses and Economic Value Edited

by Dr. Marinus Ötte

Published by University College Dublin Press

The Super Science Book
By Kate Petty & Jenie Maizels
Published by Radom House

Sit & Solve
Lateral Thinking Puzzles

By Paul Sloane and Des MacHale
Published by Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., New York

Comic Sections
The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit & Wisdom

By Desmond MacHale
Published by Boole Press, Dublin

The Irish Landscape: Scenery to Celebrate

By Professor Charles Holland
Published by Dunedin Academic Press

The Rhythms of Life:
The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

By Leon Kreitzman & Russell Foster
Published by Profile Books

A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson
Published by Black Swan

Understanding The Natural World: Science Today
Prof.William J. Reville
Published by Irish Times Books

 

Exploring Irish Mammals
Dr Tom Hayden & Dr Rory Harrington
Illustrated by Bill Clarke
Published by Townhouse


Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-county Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels
Mary Mulvihill
Published by TownHouse